False alarm

I do believe deception or lying by law enforcement is a justifiable interrogation technique. With that being said, caution should be taken when the decision to utilize such a technique as to prevent violating someone’s rights and prevention of any confessions being ruled coerced by the courts. In American history, police regularly used brutality to obtain information from a suspect (Skolnick & Leo, 1992). Due to things such as the Wickersham report from the 1920’s, changes in law, and…

actively coerced. Unfortunately, false confession happens more than one would think. About 20-25% of DNA exonerations were convicted under a false confession…

To ask, “What is a person?”, one must take into consideration the weight of the question. It is often implied that in being a person, one is entitled to certain moral protection and moral assessment. But then, to what limitation shall we set for the classification of an entity as a person? To define a person as a biological synonym to the term human being would restrict the definition from encompassing future or past entities that may display characteristics deserving of not being treated as a…

Today, people do illegal activities which are threatening to society just for the sake to earn profits. The ongoing debate on whistleblowing raises conflicting issues that draw public attention. Although governments and many business leaders have adopted various measures to incriminate the activities of whistleblowers. Whistleblowers contribute a great deal to the society by sanitizing the system. The heroic deeds of whistleblowers exposed unethical and shady deals when some authorities hide…

False memory syndrome is a psychological phenomenon that can cause a high impact on someone's life. They are recollections of fabricated events that have not actually occured in reality. What this paper aims to address are the various reasons why false memories occur, how easily memories are manipulated, and how this affects individuals regarding the criminal justice system. Changes to protocols regarding eyewitness testimony has changed standard procedures in court and the outcomes of the…

is fragile, not a perfect record, as we are not always accurate because of miss information, which is everywhere, contaminating and distorting our memory. False memories are a recollection of details or events that did not actually happen or that happened very differently than an individual recall. Our sense of reality is altered with false memories. Dr. Loftus tells the story of Steve Titus an innocent man driving his car which resembled a car the police were looking for in a rape case.…

The False Claims Act is a piece of legislation from the U.S. Congress that allows any individual with knowledge of a fraud being perfected against any agency of the U.S. Government to file a claim on behalf of the Government against the individual or business that has or is committing such fraud. The individual filing such claim on behalf of the United States Government is identified as the qui tam plaintiff and, if the action is successful, such person is entitled to share in a percentage of…

when the memories are recalled. It does not matter how memories are recalled, they still believe to be accurate. Certain techniques are used to recreate what appears to be memories, although they may be unrelated to the actual events from the past. False memory syndrome is a condition where a person “has a memory” of a traumatic experience that has not happened, yet they strongly believe in it. This can happen if recover memory therapy is uses techniques such as guided imagery, hypnosis, group…

The idea of false memory has been studied since the days of Sigmund Freud. It’s defined as a fabricated or distorted recollection of an event (Cherry). The study of false memory has been used to help understand how the smallest things can make such a big impact on how we remember certain events in our minds. Most people think that a person’s memory is always accurate and can’t be changed, but many studies have been done to prove this wrong. “Though the term ' 'false memory ' ' is slippery and…

False memory is a very serious problem that everybody will definitely experience in life at least once. So what is false memory exactly it “…is a fabricated or distorted recollection of an event that did not actually happen.”(Cherry, 2014) These memories can be influenced through a combination of things including misinformation and misunderstanding of the specific information. Existing memories can sometimes overlap and distort the formation of a relatively new memory. Which causes the memory to…